Toilet article



Patented Feb. 1, 1921.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY P. McGUlRE.

TOILET ARTICLE.

A'PPLICATION FILED MAY 8. 1920.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOILET ARTICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1921.

Application filed May 8, 1920. Serial No. 379,696.

To all whom it may concern." W

Be it known that I, PATRICK lvICliUIRE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Superior, in the county of Douglas and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet Articles, 0? which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to a novel combination toilet article and has special reference to a portable device for use as a curling iron heater, hot or cold air circulating means, and pin receptacle.

The principal object of the invention is to form a convenient and simple device of this character and one that may be readily connected with the ordinary electric light circuit in a dwelling house.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application and in which like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the assembled device;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of same;

Fig. 3 is a central vertical section taken on the line 33 Fig. 2, showing the fan motor in elevation;

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view of the electric circuit; and,

Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of the device.

The main body portion or housing of the device, comprises two separable portions 1 and 2, they being held together by a suitable single screw-threaded tap bolt 3. The section 1 of the housing or body portion, upon its upper extremity, has formed integral therewith the hollow cylindrical extension 4, the outer end of which is covered by the perforated screw threaded cap or closure 5. \Vithin the extension 4 is removably carried the open ended insulated cylinder 6 which carries spaced from the interior thereof the resistance heating coil 7 and this cylinder, with its coil, is held in position within the extension by a suitable screw indicated at 8.

Spaced below the extension 4 and transverse the front face of the section 1 is installed in any desired manner a transversely disposed helical heating coil 9. which is adapted for use in heating a curling iron, as indicated at 10, which latter is conveniently supported in the forwardly extending brackets 11, at either end of the coil 9 and preferably integral with the section 1.

At the base of the section 1 is formed an extension 12 which is hollowed out or concaved as at 13, forming a suitable troughlike receptacle for the convenient holding of small articles such as hair pins and the like.

The section 2 ofthe body portion carries in its upper rearwardly convened approximately cylindrical portion a suitable electric motor 14 which drives the fan 15 poised axially with the receptacle of the heating coil 7 and spaced slightly rearwardly thereof. Thls motor may be secured in any desired manner within the housing, and I have shown the removable closure or cap 16 in the upper portion of the section 2 and adjacent the motor 14 for access thereto. Just below the motor 14: and through the rear convex wall 17 or the section 2 are formed a plurality of vertically elongated openings 18 for the admission of air to the fan 15 when in rmeration, the same being forced longituthrou h the heating coil 7 and out of the perforations in the closure or cap 5.

Upon opposite sides of the receptacle and I adjacent the base thereof are provided electric socket connections of any suitable form and indicated at 19, which have mounted eX- ternally thereof snap switches indicated i 20 and 21; the switch 20 being a common two circuit snap switch, the detail of which it is not considered necessary to describe as the same forms no part of my present invention. This switch forms the connection between the main electric circuit 22 and the motor circuit 23 and the heating coil circuit 24 and is so connected that at its first turning to on position the motor M will be operated and a blast of cold air delivered through the perforated cap 5 and the device thus employed when cold air is desired; however, on a further turning of the switch, the circuit to the heating coil 7 will be closed and the air as it passes from the fan through the perforations of the cap 5 will be heated resulting in a blast of warm air being delivered; the matter of hot or cold air, for hair drying purposes, thus being optional with the user of the device.

It is to be understood that the construc tion of the switch 20 is such as to operate the motor and heating coil 7 circuits simultaneously during the second snapping of the switch. when upon the third operation of the switch both the motor and heating coil circuit will be simultaneously broken; this being nothing new in the common two way switch as is well known.

The snap switch 21 is installed intermediate of the main line circuit 22'which enters a suitable opening in the rear of the section 2 of the housing and the curling iron heating coil 9, it being a simple one circuit snap switch. The main circuit 22 is provided with the usual plug and extension common to devices of this character and which may be plugged into any light or other common electric connection.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. The combination with an upright housing of the character described having an electric circuit associated therewith, of a fan coil in the upper portion of the housing, a second heating coil spaced below and separate from the first mentioned coil and means for employing the coils and the motor each independently or simultaneously.

2. A device of the character described comprisin a portable separable uprighthousing, a heating coil installed within the upper portion of the housing, a fan motor adjacent the heating coil for forcing air therethrough, a second heating coil spaced below and transverse the first mentioned coil for heating a curling iron or the like, an electric circuit connected with the housing, an electric circuit intermediate of the main circuit and each coil and the motor and means carried by the housing for opening and closing the circuits to the coils and the motor as desired.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature in the resence of two witnesses.

ATRICK MoGUIRE.

Witnesses:

S. C. BnoNsoN, S. GEO. STEVENS. 

